Kosovo president rejects code that criminalises libel

Two controversial articles of the Kosovo penal code that threatened media freedom created significant domestic and international opposition.
By Safet Kabashaj for Southeast European Times in Pristina — 09/05/12

Kosovo media boycotted the activities of state institutions to protest changes to the penal code that would have criminalised libel and jailed journalists for protecting their sources.

After a sustained protest from journalists and media watchdogs, Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga

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Did tug-of-war team use All Blacks name first?

Tug of war has claim on name




JOSEPH ROMANOS









Pioneers: The New Zealand tug-of-war team, resplendent in black shirts with silver ferns.













Were the first All Blacks who left New Zealand actually a tug-of-war team?




Brooklyn resident Joy Tiefenbacher has been doing some work on her family tree and is seeking more information about her grandfather, Robert Reid, the captain and anchorman of a pre-World

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Davidi on Blue Jays: Janssen embracing new role

OAKLAND – So, the three-up, three-down save really does exist.

The Toronto Blue Jays and their fans can certainly be forgiven for thinking a clean ninth in a tight ballgame was some type of popular fallacy, having not seen one that went their way since last Sept. 14, when Frank Francisco closed out the Boston Red Sox without incident.

Since then, nursing leads of three runs or less through the ninth has been a near-constant misadventure of varying degrees, until Casey Janssen,

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Science trumps politics as ‘real force in our time’: Israeli President

Science can be neither conquered nor defended by armies and its advancement will change the way humans govern themselves, Israeli President Shimon Peres said Tuesday.
“Science cannot be controlled or arrested,” the Nobel laureate said at Rideau Hall. “Science doesn’t respect distances or frontiers or laws.”


His opening remarks to a roundtable discussion on education and innovation drew obvious parallels to Israel’s fears of Iranian nuclear development.
They also clattered

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